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Creating an enabling environment for the advancement of women and girls
World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2006This publication is World Vision’s briefing paper to the 50th Commission on the Status of Women.DocumentRevenues and governance in sub-saharan Africa: summary for the African Commission
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004In this submission to the UK Africa commission the author summarises, with a focus on policy implications, what he believes to be an emerging consensus about governance issues in Africa. He argues that donors must consider the long-term political and governance implications of the receiving country before intervening and consider how an intervention will affect sources of ‘state revenue’.DocumentExpanding broadband and wireless telecommunications networks
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Holding voice conversations over the internet through wireless networks are beginning to give consumers, small companies and social activists a way of connecting to international networks. Telephony, chat, email, text messaging and video-conferencing improve trust and enhance commerce.DocumentA dynamic model of retirement in Indonesia
California Center for Population Research, USA, 2006This paper builds and estimates a structural dynamic model to simulate the effects of demographic change on labour supply for older men in Indonesia It evaluates two possible public pension reforms, which may be necessary to address the growing needs of an ageing population.The paper:reviews the literature and summarises patterns and determinants of old age labour supply in both develDocumentCan sustainable forestry contribute to development?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Sustainable forest management can, in theory, contribute to economic growth, protect the environment and benefit rural communities. However, is this ideal achievable?DocumentShaking our foundations: media and the Asian Tsunami
International Federation of Journalists, 2005This report gives an overview of the challenges journalists and media organisations face in the aftermath of the tsunami. The massive earthquake and subsequent tsunamis devastated a number of communities in a dozen Indian Ocean countries.DocumentSome progress but Education for All can do better
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Steady progress has been made since 1998, especially towards universal primary education (UPE) and gender parity among the poorest countries, but the pace is insufficient for the six Education for All (EFA) goals to be achieved by 2015. Increased political will and funding is required if countries are to meet the commitments they set at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 2000.DocumentArtesunate beats quinine against severe malaria
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Quinine is currently the only drug recommended for the treatment of severe malaria throughout much of the tropics. A study in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Myanmar shows that treatment with artesunate cuts adult mortality by over a third compared with quinine. Artesunate should become first-line treatment for severe falciparum malaria in adults, the researchers conclude.DocumentTsunami response: a human rights assessment
ActionAid International, 2006This report from ActionAid outlines how one year after the Tsunami, despite the tremendous efforts of local, national and international agencies, the rehabilitation and reconstruction process is fraught with difficulties.DocumentLinguistic genocide? Children’s right to education in their own language
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006We are killing languages faster than ever. By 2100, between 90 and 95 percent of today’s approximately 7,000 spoken languages may be extinct or no longer learned by children.Most threatened languages are spoken by indigenous peoples; unless they are strengthened through education and other measures they will disappear.Pages